HURRY! Nominations for election to the Management Committee will close on FRIDAY 3RD MARCH AT 4.00PM. If you wish to nominate yourself or another member, please collect a nomination form from the office.

REMINDER to those Members who renewed by our new EFT online option:

This option is working well, but you still need to collect your new 2017 Badge and sign the Renewal form, so if you haven’t already done so please call at the office to complete the process.

SENIORS’ WEEK ACTIVITIES:

ART EXHIBITION

This year the Art Classes of U3A Redcliffe will be holding an Art Exhibition as part of our Seniors’ Week Activities.

It will be held at the Redcliffe Cultural Centre from Tuesday 15th August until Monday 28th August. The Redcliffe Art Society will handle the bookings for the Exhibitions at the Cultural Centre and we will be working closely with them in arranging our Exhibition.

At this stage we do not have all the details, but they will provide the tickets for placing on the pieces of art and will also hang the paintings. They will be asking for volunteers to assist. We will be advised of the amount of space allocated to us and will then work out how many pieces each student can display.

U3A SENIORS CONCERT

At the recent Management Committee Meeting there was a long discussion regarding the Seniors Concert. Reluctantly, the decision was made NOT to hold the Concert at the Redcliffe Cultural Centre.

Some of our performers have been an integral part of the Concert for many years, but this year have had to make the very difficult decision not to participate – due to health reasons.

This has left us with a reduced number of performers and most certainly not enough to stage a Concert such as we have had in the past. We did ask for expressions of interest for people to form a Production Committee, but we have only had one person come forward

We are hopeful of still staging a Seniors Week Concert but in a different format, so we are looking for members of U3A Redcliffe who have talents as yet unknown to us to come forward and put your name down at the office. We will then review the situation and see what we can come up with. We do already have some of our existing musical groups who have expressed interest so hopefully we can add to those and celebrate with a U3A Redcliffe Seniors Week Concert.

TRIVIA

Our next Trivia morning will be held on WEDNESDAY 5TH APRIL here at U3A in the MBR commencing at 10.00am, 52 places available. Come along to the office and book your seat. $8.00 includes light luncheon and good prizes.

CLASS SNIPPETS

The ladies of the new class, "I don't Mind if you Colour in", certainly don't mind sharing their beautiful creations. A morning of creative colouring in, Mindful relaxation and, to be honest, gentle gossip,with the added bonus of enjoying the music from the next door room,and a break for a well earned cuppa, is well worth considering. We meet on alternate Thursday mornings, and our next class is on March 9th. We would love some more interested people to join us, so if you are free, pop in between 9.30 and 11 am in room 3.We look forward to seeing you. Any questions, feel free to ring Gillian on 3283 3817

WE NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE:

Our Friday morning our “Retrieving the Garbage Bins” person is not able to do this chore due to her going on a lengthy holiday.

We are seeking the services of a member who attends a Friday class to take on this role. It entails bringing the empty bins back into the campus and storing them in the storeroom located next to the lift. Our cleaners place the bins out on the footpath on Thursday evening.

If you can help, please leave your name and phone number at the office and I will get back to you. GENERAL ITEM

On weeks where there are not many new items to include in the Communique I intend to include snippets of news items which I consider would be of interest to members. This week I am including an item relating to computer security.

Stay Smart Online is the Australian Government's online safety and security website, designed to help everyone understand the risks and simple steps we can take to protect our personal and financial information online. It’s web address is “https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/”

Alert Service

The Stay Smart Online Alert Service is a free service for internet users, to explain recent online threats and how they can be managed. Browse alerts and subscribe to stay up to date. Home and small business users are provided with easy to understand online safety and security information and solutions to help protect their online safety and privacy. You can register for this Alert Service on their website.

How alerts are created and threat priority levels determined

Threats are filtered through a matrix managed by ENEX Test Lab, which assesses the relevance to Australian Internet users and grades threats with a priority level.To determine a priority level, the contents of the Alert are given a cumulative score out of 20 using a criteria that takes into account the potential for damage, the time frame of the threat, the potential for exploitability and user control/ technicality.

The cumulative score out of 20 is then used to apply one of the following priority levels;

Urgent – This grading is rarely used as it means a threat requires immediate user attention,

High – Users should act on advice to ensure their safety, security or privacy is maintained,

Moderate – Users would benefit from further information or preparing action, or

Low – This grading is rarely used as these threats are rarely worth publishing.

Stay Smart Online is a useful resource for businesses and consumers, providing information on how they can protect themselves online.

CHANGING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

COMMUNIQUE SUBSCRIPTION: If you wish to change your email address, or be removed, please use the '' link at the foot of the Communique. It will then be effective from the next edition.MEMBERSHIP DETAILS: PLEASE NOTIFY THE U3A OFFICE OF ANY CHANGES.

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ALL MEMBERS ARE REMINDED THAT A CURRENT FINANCIAL BADGE IS TO BE WORN WHEN ATTENDING CAMPUS AND CLASSES. PLEASE SIGN THE CLASS REGISTER AND PLACE THE RELEVANT CLASS FEE (in Australian currency) IN THE BOWL.

CARE & CONCERN

At times we are advised that a member has not been enjoying the best of health, perhaps with a hospital stay. On some occasions we have not known of this until much later. If you know of a member who is not well, please let the office team know. There is a book in the office where details can be recorded and our Care and Concern Aide, Shirley Smith will check the book and take appropriate action.

Any member who has anything they would like published, relating to U3A or simply some musings they think will interest our readers, please email to u3arcc@u3aredcliffe.org.au or drop a copy into the office, clearly marked "Campus Communique".

The E-newsletter: Des Jackson, EditorThe editor reserves the right to publish articles in any form.The Campus Communiqué is published with the full approval of the committee of U3A.